Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 16 | Making Last Effort to Save Hillstrom

" MAKING LAST EFFORT TO SAVE HILLSTROM Enlistment of Aid of Swedish Swed-ish People in United States Is Plan. Lfforts are now being made by the I. W. W. leaders to organize all the Swedish people in the United States in a mighty protest to President Wilson against the execution of Joseph Hill-strom, Hill-strom, the condemned assassin of Grocer J. G. Morrison and his son. This latest move to save Hillstrom was announced last night in iS'ew York at a mass meeting of protest eoiulucted by the I. VV. W. and attended bv more than 1000 men and women, according to dispatches from the metropolis. At this mass meeting, which was held in the Manhattan lyceum, a. number of I. W, W. leaders, among them Elizabeth Eliza-beth Gurley Flynn, exhorted their hearers hear-ers to aid in preventing the execution of Hillstrom. Above the heads of the speakers was suspended a huge canvas, bearing these words in flaring letters: "On November 9 Joseph Hillstrom will be shot through the heart by six hired gunmen of the state of Utah. Shall we let him die?" It was Joseph Ettor, chairman of the meeting, who announced the propaganda propa-ganda which had for its purpose a wholesale enlistment of racial sympathies sympa-thies and influence in Hillstroin's .behalf. .be-half. Ettor stated that I. W. W. lead ers were agitating among the Swedish people in the United States, urging them to organize ajid protest en masse to the highest authorities in the country coun-try against the carrying out of Hillstrom Hill-strom 's sentence. The men and women at this meeting were instructed by the 1. W. W. leaders lead-ers to send letters of protest against Hillstrom 's execution to President Wilson, Wil-son, the governor of Utah, the mayor of Salt Lake and the two United States senators from Utah. The leaders dispatched such messages after the meeting. Nine days from today is the time set for the execution of Joseph Hillstrom. Letters from I. W. W. members and their sympathizers continue to be received re-ceived by Governor William Spry and other state officials, but the governor announces that there will be no deviation devia-tion from the schedule for Hillstrom 's shooting. The date set is November 10. ; Text of recent letters in the Hillstrom j matter received by the governor have not been made public. "They are similar simi-lar in tone to those that have been received right along, ' ' said John K. Hardy, Governor Spry 's secretary, yesterday. yes-terday. "Some or them make more threats than others, but the governor is paying no attention to any of them." Mr. Hardy added that the appeals and threats from the T. W. W. sympathizers would have no effect upon the governor or members of the board of pardons. Soren X. Ohristeusen, one of Hillstrom Hill-strom 's attorneys, went to Pocatello last night. Tt was reported that his mission in the Idaho city had to do with a phase of the case. K B. Critchlow, retained bv W. A. F. Ekengren, the Swedish minister to the United States, to examine the records in the ease and keep an eve on Hillstrom 's interests, said lat night there were no late developments.